Absolutely funniest thing in Democratic politics today...

[bluewater]

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I am of two minds on splitting the debate now. If it was 5-6 people on stage at a time, I think it would make for a better debate. But I would also like to see all the leading candidates on the same stage.

The random drawings for stage positions leave something to be desired.

[Mr.Bill]

1. My biggest worry about Steyer

is that he will run as an independent.

[bluewater]

2. You actually think he's that egotistical?

I think he's more likely to stay in as a boutique Democratic candidate and try to get some convention face time.

[Mr.Bill]

4. I don't know, but I know he's that rich. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

6. I also know this.

I have a friend from my younger days in Silicon Valley. He started a company that he sold for a billion dollars. Other investors had to be paid, but his net worth is estimated to be in the upper hundreds of millions of dollars. He has spent over 50 million dollars running in elections he probably knows he cannot win.

[MontanaMama]

3. Yikes.

I didn't think of that.

[Mme. Defarge]

5. I worry that he's a Trump

sleeper-cell.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. He's given hundreds of millions of dollars to get Democrats elected.

If he's a sleeper cell meant to destroy the Democratic party, he's a stupid one.

[Mme. Defarge]

14. Good to know!

I just worry a lot these days.

[LincolnRossiter]

9. Steyer's given something like $400M to democratic candidates and liberal causes...

He’s a party loyalist. He won’t go Indy when he doesn’t win.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I hope you are right.

It just worries me that he and many others have the money to do it if they wanted to.

[Hortensis]

15. Yes. Steyer's done some good things, but trying to use

his money to buy a presidential nomination by hiring and turning professional manipulators on those who are easily manipulated isn't one of them.

Can't argue that some contempt for representative democracy isn't always justified, and some times more than others, but becoming part of what is contemptible and desperately needs to be fixed isn't.

[LincolnRossiter]

8. I actually would like to see it broken up so that we have fewer people on stage...

But it shouldn’t be randomly broken out. There should be an upper group (Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Buttigieg) and a lower group (the other six). Watching guys polling 2% try to take shots at the expense of the leaders is annoying.

[bluewater]

10. I believe the DNC is the one insisting any split be done randomly.

I would prefer, at this point, that they do it as you suggested, have a top tier debate and a lower tier debate.

But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

[LincolnRossiter]

12. Yeah I thought I'd read that it's their rule, but I'd ask that the revisit if I were a hosting

network.

[Mr.Bill]

13. Any network hosting the debates

is interested in ratings. They will get more viewers (and more ad revenue) if they split the top tier people over the two nights.